I just called. You can, too.

Sunlight does not cause wars. Wind does not cause wars. Geothermal does not cause wars.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

What a horrific way to kick off this new year. In our names, with our tax dollars.

In the old days, we would seek comment on stories about climate change from experts in the field who have spent decades studying evidence of the effects of greenhouse gases and findingsolutions. That ends today. Now we'll get your uncle Rooster who you had that big argument with at Thanksgiving.

They’re using a Korean ship because Trump decommissioned the US icebreaker when he dismantled American climate research, apparently

To repeat: this has never been about his concern for birds.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Happy New Year from the Washington coast. Wishing all of us courage, community and joy in the year ahead. As they say: We are going to win.

This is such a lovely thread. Never underestimate the importance of small joys and pleasures in creating a life worth living, especially through dark times.

This concern is appreciated and warranted, but to clarify: 3 out of 9 regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers have had their funding frozen (DOI won’t approve their 5-year renewals). 6 regional CASCs are still (mostly) funded. We haven’t given up on restoring funding for the full network.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

When you're wrapping up holiday errands, overstimulated by the crowds and fluorescent lights, and one of your favorite voices inexplicably floats down from the Fred Meyer sound system, instantly lowering your blood pressure. RIP, Mimi.

This is the way. Nineteen states and DC sue to protect life-saving health care for trans kids.

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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

Update: the book has arrived, and it's so lovely. From the Coast Range ecoregion chapter, here's a poem inspired by the Duckabush Estuary restoration project.

Unsurprising but devastating: plans for a zombified NCA6 to be written by a handful of climate contrarians & Grok. A slap in the face to the American public, and to the hundreds of scientists who'd volunteered to spend the next several years carefully doing this the right way, for the public good.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

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We are hiring a PhD to work on climate politics and class! Come join us in Copenhagen

Keeping rats out of our toilets seems like an important yet heretofore unexplored climate action talking point.

It feels like we're hitting an inflection point in the infiltration of AI slop (both papers and journals) into the peer-reviewed literature - the anecdotes just keep getting wilder. This is truly the very last thing we need when science and evidence-based decision-making are already under attack.

"A Democratic senator involved in the negotiations...said that Trump’s attempt to break up a premier weather and climate center based in Boulder, Colo., was like a “stick of dynamite” that exploded any chance of a bipartisan breakthrough on spending." thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Today is a good day to donate to The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people.

This is why you never give an inch to the bigots. All those centrists dems (Newsom, Mayo Pete) claiming there are concerns around trans kids, you're complicit in this. This doesn't get rid of trans people, it just makes them suffer unbearably. Get your head straight: trans rights are human rights.

This is the attitude every leader should be bringing when the most vulnerable are threatened by the most powerful.

Banning medical care for trans kids doesn’t stop them from being trans. It just makes their lives into a horrible nightmare.

AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:

This evening, as communities across Washington state are reeling from historic flooding, DOE issued an emergency order directing continued operation of a Washington coal plant that would have closed by the end of the year due to a new state law banning coal-powered electricity generation.

Timeline cleanse: my large cat proudly launching himself into a cardboard box.

Or rather, all too believable. If you want to suppress all knowledge of how a relatively small number are enriching themselves by destroying our shared home then this destruction, following on the heels of the funding freeze for the national Climate Adaptation Science Centers, is completely logical.

Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.

They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.

This wouldn't just be a national tragedy but a global one. Just mind-boggling vandalism.

Wondering how to help communities affected by ongoing flooding in Washington state? For donations, here's a list of local and national orgs providing on-the-ground support.

Please stand up for trans kids by calling your reps today. Gender-affirming care is lifesaving care. Tell Congress to vote NO to H.R. 3492 and H.R. 498. U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

A second levee broke south of Seattle last night as our relentless parade of atmospheric rivers continues. Thinking of the John Holdren quote that we have three options: mitigation, adaptation or suffering. The third is growing ever more apparent as progress lags on one and two.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Hard to overstate how concerning this is. There are over 46,000 people, a school, and a hospital in the flash flood warning area. Washington communities have been bracing for levee failures as another round of atmospheric rivers arrives to full rivers and saturated soils.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

Since I retired, I do greatly miss the teamwork and community support attached to disaster response, but I am also glad I left before AI became much of a thing. It is one more unnecessary complicating factor in an already massively complex problem set.

Folks on Washington state community Facebook groups are arguing about whether images of local flood damage are real or not. Generative AI is making it so much harder for people to get the reliable information they need to make decisions during disasters.

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

Turns out you can, in fact, have a backbone, stand up for the most vulnerable among us, and win. Well done, Seattle Children’s.

Interesting model here. “If universities genuinely want to realize their potential to solve societal challenges, they must create mechanisms to recognize publicly engaged research in the P&T process” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Tuckered out from terrorizing the Christmas tree ornaments.

I took a detour to the edge of the city to take a picture of these amazing sundogs over Winnipeg caused by ice crystals blowing around in the sky.